Irresistible sweets It's an age of abundance, it's an age of barrenness.
This is an age of wisdom, this is an age of barbarism.
In this era, time is a luxury, concentration is a scarce commodity, energy is a consumable, and labor is a bonus.
The land of wisdom is littered with withered vines and rotting fruits.
In the past, cars and horses were slow, and there was only enough love for one person in a lifetime, but now, too fast, and if you don't do anything, you will be the boss.
Segmentation and utilization of time
Time management is the process of dividing and redistributing time, and improving the way and efficiency of time is used.
A schedule is just an ideal plan in an ideal state, and it is almost impossible to achieve it in actual operation.
The more precise the time arrangement, the more likely it is to go wrong, because the tolerance for accidents is too low, and only the reasonable planning of time can make better use of time.
Just as there is not a single grain of sand in the gears of a watch, an excavator can work in the dust.
The master of time
The first thing to understand is that your time is not entirely your own.
The time is not in your own hands, and the timing is not completely in your hands, so you can't make a precise plan.
Most of the daytime is spent doing work that benefits others and gets paid.
Such time occupies the vast majority, and only a few are left to themselves to allocate.
Even after work, there are no 8 hours to arrange, and 4 hours is already a difficult limit to reach.
Make it a priority to plan out the time you need and leave the rest of the time for family, social interactions, and other trivial matters in life.
The time every day is limited, and it is impossible to work out, study, output, and socialize at the same time. Of course, there are exceptions, if you only work 3 months a year and are not busy at other times, you will have a lot of time to arrange yourself.
The reality is: constantly interrupted, interrupted at any time.
What is important to you is not important to others, so there are always people who break your arrangement. He also often jumps out of emergencies, and all the planned time is smashed into smithereens, and everything has to be torn down and restarted.
My suggestion is to plan in weeks, divide in minutes, execute in sessions, and exercise for 30 minutes 3 times a week instead of 30 minutes a day.
The granularity of time
Improve the perception of time, use time blocks, and cut time into a smaller unit that can accommodate it, so as to arrange work and study. But don't divide it too much, so that you can be exhausted in the division.
For example, 30 minutes. Exercise for 30 minutes and rest for 30 minutes. Use a small unit to arrange work and life, and try to arrange it compactly, so as to spare time for the whole block. Use the whole block of time to output or think.
The squeeze of time is limited, and how to improve the effective use of time per unit of time has become the key.
Exhaustion and replenishment of energy
People's daily energy is limited, and it gradually decreases over time, so it needs to be used reasonably.
Arrange the input or output according to the amount of energy reserve, whether to choose difficult work or simple and boring labor.
The input consumes far less energy than the output.
The process of input is quick and pleasant.
The process of output is slow and painful.
The process of output requires a lot of thinking, reorganizing and organizing the input knowledge.
We have to choose to do the most important, difficult, and important things when we are energetic.
Take a short break with fragmented time or enter some simple content such as an article of interest, or a map or someone else's reading notes.
Use input and output to regulate our limited energy, and rest or meditation to replenish the exertion of energy. Increase efficiency, increase the amount of energy reserve, and increase the fragmentation time of recovery.
Taking a nap in the middle of the day, or meditating, is a great way to replenish your energy. Although it is more efficient to be undisturbed at noon, colleagues who work efficiently also consume a lot of energy, resulting in a worse state in the afternoon. A break at noon is equivalent to a reboot for the brain to recover some of the energy consumed, so that you can work more efficiently in the afternoon.
In the process of consumption, it is constantly replenished and used sparingly. Arrange the time to replenish energy reasonably, as well as the way to replenish it.
Let the brain's consumption process become an undulating folded line, rather than a smooth downward curve.
When you sit in the car at night, you are generally tired, and it is easier to enter a relaxed state. If you want to see**or short**, this kind of input that does not consume a lot of brain power, you don't need to think, you don't need a lot of memory.
In many cases, second-hand knowledge is easier to understand, but not accurate enough, and when I have little time or energy, this knowledge will become the first choice, only in this way can I reduce the consumption of brain power. Use other people's time to shorten our input process.
That's why we're constantly looking for dry goods.
Dry goods are the essence, but they are also second-hand or even third-hand knowledge, some of the author's views are mixed with it, and some of the original views have been deleted.
I read the dry goods first, and if I think it is useful, I am reading the original text to deepen my understanding.
There can be a relaxing time in the middle of intense work, and this relaxation period must not excite the brain too much and make you feel relaxed, but in fact the brain is not relaxed. The energy is constantly being consumed, and there is no replenishment.
The decrease in energy leads to a decrease in efficiency, a decrease in execution, and a decrease in willpower. If you lose control of your energy, you will live with exhaustion.
When you are energetic, you should accomplish important and difficult tasks efficiently. In this way, you can do something less important and simple at the trough of energy to reduce the excessive consumption of energy.
Keep searching for a balance point in relaxation, so that you can continue to start without expending more willpower after stopping, and continue to act after indulgence.
How to put it away freely, and what to do when something doesn't develop as we think.
The most important thing
There is continuity between your future self and your current self, not separate, find out what is most important to you and accomplish it.
How to find what matters most at the moment.
Stepping up the connection between the present and the future, Kung Fu Panda line: "There is no accident, everything is buried with a long foreshadowing." ”
Materialize the future and make it visible. Keep imagining, make it have pictures, numbers, colors.
The most important thing for you in the future is what matters most to you. Make it your long-term goal to achieve.
We need feedback to know that what we are doing is meaningful, and the longer the feedback time, the lower the brain, and the future feedback is almost "0" for the present.
Games are an example of quick payouts and instant feedback. The faster the feedback, the more excited the brain becomes.
Many books tell us to write down our wishes, and writing them down is a kind of concreteness, with specific numbers, goals, and clearly seeing what the goals look like, so that we can have more motivation to move forward.
The big picture will help you find the right direction and then break it down. From the big picture to the focus, from the target process to the task at hand.
Avoid multitasking at the same time, so that the brain can spend more time switching tasks, and there is only one thing that is most important at the moment.
Toscanini replied: "What I am doing now is the most important thing of my life, whether it is conducting a symphony orchestra or peeling an orange." ”
Learn to give up and do only what matters most.
Invalid direction, I don't know what to study, learn English or finance, or speech design.
I don't know why I did it, I think it might be useful to do it, I don't have a specific goal to put my time in the direction that I may not use, I blindly start to move forward, study aimlessly, and waste a lot of time and energy.
Divide the long-term goal into the short-term goal and set up nodes. Check the level of completion at the node.
Make short-term goals a habit in life, rather than a deliberate process of practicing self-discipline. will greatly reduce the consumption of willpower.
Allocate your daily energy according to your short-term goals.
When we're so far behind schedule, we're anxious. This is followed by feelings of shame, guilt, loss of control, and hopelessness. But these emotions do not help us to move on, but instead make people continue to procrastinate.
Self-criticism decreases motivation and self-control, while self-compassion increases motivation and self-control.
Self-forgiveness helps us recover from our mistakes because they remove the shame and pain we feel when we think of failure.
Break the vicious circle through self-reconciliation, don't dwell on the sunk costs of the past, and haven't felt guilty for so many years, so you don't have to hold on to it this time.
When you are tired, you don't want to work, you just want to rest, and your willpower is low. At this time, don't force yourself to get up and continue to work, otherwise the next day will inevitably be more tired, overdrawing our energy will make you more anxious in the future, just like your credit card, when you spend it is very cool, and when you pay it back, you are very anxious.
When we want to do something non-important, we can say, "Okay, but wait 10 minutes".
Doing only the most important things doesn't guarantee that your time will be used to the fullest, but also to be more efficient.
Efficiency gains
Efficiency gains are more intuitive, easier to observe, and at the same time important for us.
Efficiency is about getting things done right and as quickly as possible.
The first thing to emphasize before improving efficiency is correctness, and no matter how high the efficiency is, I am afraid to start all over again.
Subjective initiative and subjective efficiency.
Subjectively want to make an effort, but in the process of action, it is inefficient.
Continuously improve the method of action and improve the efficiency more proactively.
The efficiency trap "The brain is lazy and does not like to think, and if it can be executed, it will not take the initiative to think."
Mastering how to do it is more effective than acting right away, and it can save time and improve the efficiency of using time, rather than doing it all the time but not doing it.
Take reading books as an example, everyone knows that reading is useful, and some people make up their minds to read. At this time, the subjective initiative.
But reading a book in a few weeks, or even a few months, is completely different from the subjective efficiency of reading a book in a few days.
Whether you can devote yourself to doing things, and whether you can mobilize subjective efficiency, not just subjective initiative.
In places where there is a lot of repetitive work, there is a greater need to improve efficiency and innovation, and find better and faster ways.
The length of time doesn't matter, what matters is efficiency. Extending the time will only make people physically and mentally tired.
Ways to increase efficiency Focus on the work at hand, while constantly thinking about new ways to do it faster and easier.
Increase the amount of work per unit of time, rather than using hours of work to increase the workload.
Simplify the work procedure, replace manual labor with electronic machinery, hand over more work to electronics and machinery, and constantly optimize this program.
The use of tools is the difference between humans and animals is the use of tools.
Use tools to make work simpler, faster, avoid a lot of repetitive steps, don't be afraid to learn the use of tools, a good tool can help you improve your productivity in many places.
Productivity tools: OKR focus, checklists, KPI deadlines
Tools and misunderstandings
Tools:
Flow. A state of work, forgetting the passage of time at work, only focusing on the work in front of you, if not disturbed, this state can generally last for 20-40 minutes, depending on the person, and then in this state of work is efficient. The brain also doesn't feel too tired, because there is no need to deal with external distractions and inner troubles.
Everyone's state is different, the time it takes to enter the state, and the duration of each time is also different. But one thing is the same, that is, external disturbances can easily interrupt the state of flow. Allow yourself more time to focus on the task at hand.
Pomodoro technique.
This method is used when you can no longer enter the flow, because the concentration is not enough, so it is forcibly prescribed, only do what you do in these 25 minutes, and give up everything else. Work for 25 minutes and take a 5-10 minute break to give you time to deal with interruptions while also responding to external communication needs.
All of the above are ideal states that can only work if there is no or very little interference from the outside.
Create the right atmosphere.
Be in a state of work when you work, away from distractions, eating, drinking, entertainment equipment, and the gadgets at hand.
Be prepared with everything you're going to use for the next job, and stay in the groove of your work instead of going back and forth and breaking up the atmosphere you've created.
Distractions are allowed, and the brain is inherently unable to focus for long periods of time. The brain works better when it's relaxed.
The best time to think is when you take a bath and before going to bed, when the brain is fully relaxed, which is more conducive to thinking, no one disturbs you, and the body relaxes.
When the input is stopped, the output begins, and the brain never stops thinking, but is too lazy to think actively.
Upfront commitments limit the options
To achieve our goals, we have to limit our choices, which he calls "pre-commitment."
The difficulty of choosing is because there are too many choices, and when you don't have a choice, you can only do it, and your heart will calm down.
Just do this one thing, reduce the number of choices vs. the number of choicesMyth:
Thief of Time:
Searching, laziness, intermittent, regretful or daydreaming, procrastination, acting without understanding, negative emotions, lack of prioritization.
And how does that work.
Guilt doesn't work, and the vicious cycle goes from indulgence to regret to more serious indulgence.
Cumbersome procedures help us stay away from greedy desires.
Control indulgent emotional desires and let reason guide the direction of power. The elephant rider is a metaphor for how we control our desires.
False hope syndrome.
Every day, I fantasize about doing nothing, not acting, everything is a dream bubble.
Some of the ideas are derived from books: "Energy Management", "A Peculiar Life", "The Psychology of Procrastination", "Eat That Frog", "Self-Control", "The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", "Deliberate Practice", "The Most Important Thing", "Cognitive Awakening".